F Quotes
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“For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations
“For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.”
Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
“For art to be art it has to cure.”
Source: Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy
“For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.”
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”
“For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political. You don't have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.”
“For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin.”
“For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's easy to just drink your way through it and make great art. But if you're making lots of money it can be very problematic.”
“For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five thousand Facebook followers. You didn't have to worry about every club, every venue you play, where the venues say well you know can you put up this video, put up that Facebook, put up... Nowadays it's really like you just can't be a musician alone.”
“For artists, obsession obviously comes in handy. It not only gives us the energy and power to create the artistic object, but it fills up our minds in a way few other things could. But can obsession fill the death hole? Of course not, though maybe it is out of nothingness that we all begin to create. If the world doesn't exist then we will make our own world. Maybe all this fever of creation, this need to be special, this frenzy--what Thomas Wolfe called an "enormous task of excavation" of self--this creation comes at least in part out of the terror of pure emptiness, the terror of the end. The need to fill the void, to make something out of this vast sense of nothing. Extreme fear of oblivion creating extreme creation. We hurl ourselves against the death void.”
“For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation-the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing-is essential for high levels of creativity.”
Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
“For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.”
“For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted by the like danger.... so those who are besieged and assaulted by their spiritual enemies will ever after more carefully arm themselves against them with the graces of God's Spirit, that they may not be overcome nor foiled by them.”
“For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!”
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream
“For as an essential characteristic of the formula is repeat, an essential of simile is uniqueness.”
Source: The Iliad of Homer
“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.”
“For as difficult as today might be, there are many tomorrows ahead that will greet us with a sunrise or gentle rainfall.”
“For – as everyone knows – in libertinism bad taste is a potent force. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”
Source: Les Diaboliques
“For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.”
“For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.”
“For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.”
“For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a curse, and severe punishment to a people." What made it so, what turned power into a malignent force, was not its own nature so much as the nature of man—his susceptibility to corruption and his lust for self-aggrandizement.”
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
“For as I looked down to see what sort of people were about, I caught sight of a strange couple. A man of rather advanced years, judging by his back which was turned towards me, dressed in a thin, yellow swanskin jacket, pale blue trousers, heavy shoes and a little round hat, as he walked down the street. He was leading a girl, dressed no less oddly than himself in a brown cope which was draped about her shoulders almost like a toga. But the girl had so large a head, enough to startle anyone, that it kept causing people to stare at it. Both of them went their way at a moderate pace; but both were so clumsy and awkward that it was immediately evident they were not used to Vienna and that they were incapable of behaving like other folk.”
Source: Tales of Old Vienna and Other Prose
“For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“For as laws are necessary that good manners be preserved, so there is need of good manners that law may be maintained.”
“For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained.
[It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]”
“For as long as (the Founding Fathers of this nation) lived and led, they acknowledged the hand of the Almighty in the affairs of this republic. Our coinage and our currency carry the national motto. It simply says, 'In God We Trust.' I believe this is the foundation upon which this nation was established, an unequivocal trust in the power of the Almighty to guide and defend us.”
“For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.”
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five
“For as long as he lives, he honours God's calling on his life unequivocally and explicitly. His blessings multiply, not by addition but by division—shared freely, they grow exponentially.”
Source: A Man of Valour: Idioms and Epigrams
“For as long as human beings are forced to live in a system that at every turn impedes the fulfillment of their basic human needs - not only for love but for creative and spiritual expression - they will try to compensate for this in other ways, including the compulsive acquisition of ever more material goods.”
“For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.”
“For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.”
“For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.”
Source: Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist
“For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a thing for running away when I felt unseen, with the hope that people would chase me. Like maybe if my presence wasn’t noticed, my absence would be.”
Source: Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care
“For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.”
“For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!"”
“For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our founding fathers. They set forth principles that have endured for than more two centuries. Those principles are as meaningful and relevant in each generation as the generation before. It would be a profound privilege for me to play a role in applying those principles to the questions and controversies we face today.”
“For as long as I can remember, I have loved snow and ice. As a result, I have spent most of my life exploring the Arctic region. These journeys have brought such joy and beauty to my life that I have dedicated myself to helping preserve these wonderful frozen places. More than ever before, I am driven to share my passion for the Arctic, a region whose health and stability have far-reaching consequences for us all.”
“For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.”
“For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.”
“For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.”
“For as long as I can remember, I've been passionate about music. I can't recall a time when I didn't have music playing in my head.”
“For as long as I can remember, I've been the kind of person who goes against the grain and questions authority, and that doesn't make for an ideal religious follower.”
“For as long as I can remember, I've had memories.”
“For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.”
Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.”
“For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.”
“For as long as I could push air in and out of my chest, I would remember this moment that could never be measured.”